Please help me find this 1980s picture book

[aprons_and_acorns]

You all are so good at this, I just had to try one. This book used to be a favorite of mine when I was in preschool, so 1982 or so. All I remember is that there is some kind of a monster who eats cars, this causes some problems for the people in the city and they think of some kind of solution.

The pictures are really bright and cartoonish, its not a scary book at all. The cars are all cute and colorful like little toy cars, I think there may be some pictures of highways and a car factory.

I know my little boy would like this book a lot, and not being able to remember the name of it is just nagging at me. I would love to go down memory lane and see this book again. Thanks in advance for any super-sluething

[luv-my-boys]

hmmm....ive never heard of that book. But this is a really cute "friendly" monster book where they also eat cars. I guess monsters like cars

http://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Dont-...7&sr=8-1-spell

[aprons_and_acorns]

That looks cute! Thanks for the link.


The book I'm looking for might be this one The Hungry Thing but I'm not sure. I know that was another preschool favorite, but the book I'm thinking of has a picture of a monster sort of plucking cars off the road or out of a parking lot to eat them. Are they two different books or the same book? Hurray for fuzzy memories!

[kaliki_kila]

I own the book The Hungry Thing and I flipped through it and there's not any pictures of him eating cars, sorry. There's a sequel to The Hungry Thing called The Hungry Thing Returns and it could be that one.

[ollyoxenfree]

It sounds like it might be a picture book version of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. The original book is a short children's novel. It was made into a movie The Iron Giant in the late '90's. I'm pretty sure the Iron Man eats metal. It's NOT the same as the Marvel comic book and Robert Downey movie, BTW.

Hope you find it soon.